I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Aaron Wakling

I’ve had to cut smartyhost loose too Paul, too much down time, no after hours support, all round poor service.

Ahhhh, before I make any changes on my blog, I have to get this issue of corrupt backup files fixed. The host is working on it, but I’m kinda worried…

wow Mariam, that is really scary… maybe its something messed up with wordpress, did you try to re-copy wordpress over itself?

Most likely as the file size ballooned twice the amount and I just checked all my backups and it seems it had happened over the summer. Bummer. Luckily, I do keep a text copy of all my posts so if anything happens, I can recover… not the comments though unless I want to take a look at the db and query it to extract all the comments.

So that’s why your site’s down sometimes when i come visit. Downtimes make me cranky too. My host promises 99.5% uptime so when it bogs down I write really long emails to them.

mariam, you can export all posts and comments from std wordpress functionality. go to php admin and do a DB repair, you should be good to go. sing out if you need a hand

Here is a tip for you, remove that image next to the adsense code.
Be careful not to get banned, cheers !

Thanks Music lover, I did check the T&C’s and the image has to be related to the ads to be against the rules. The image is a picture of my name in Japanese, not related to anything i have seen advertised in the code block.